Lathyrus spp. - Sweet pea

Sweet Pea includes climbing plants with fragrant, colorful flowers. They are grown ornamentally for their beautiful blooms and sweet scent. Sweet Pea flowers are popular in bouquets and garden displays. The seeds are poisonous.

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 2¹
• Hardiness zone 3¹
• Hardiness zone 4¹
• Hardiness zone 5¹
• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Hardiness zone 11¹
• Full sun¹
• Semi-shade¹
• Moist soil¹

Type

• Vine
• Annual

Functions

• Nitrogen fixer²

Footnotes

1. Lathyrus odoratus | Plants for a Future ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³

2. Gaia’s Garden - A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition Table 6-3 ↩